US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Oct. 7 for "Wireless wear detection for sealing elements" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,579, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Wireless wear detection for sealing elements" was invented by Ahmed Abuelaish (Sugar Land, Texas) and Thomas Leonard (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling system is provided that includes a wellbore device. The wellbore device includes a housing including a bore and a seal element composed of an elastomeric material. positioned within the housing, and configured to seal the bore. The wellbore device includes a bearing assembly supported within the housing and configured to enable the seal element to rotate relative to the housing. T...